In the final installment from Sundance, WeTalk host Ondi Timoner sparks a conversation with two innovative documentarians.

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Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians) is a filmmaker and artist whose work explores Indigenous homeland, language, and cultural continuity through experimental and nonfiction media. His latest film, <a href="https://www.skyhopinka.com/powwow-people" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Powwow People</a>, is out now. His films have screened at Sundance, Toronto International Film Festival and the New York Film Festival, among others. Hopinka’s work has been featured in the Whitney Biennial and the Centre Pompidou. He is a 2022 MacArthur Fellow and a past recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Radcliffe Institute and Sundance Institute.

Sky Hopinka

A Love Letter to Powwows

Devin Smock is an independent filmmaker, writer, and small business owner based in Jacksonville, Illinois. He is the writer-director of the feature film <a href="https://www.instagram.com/hollerfilm/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Holler</a>, co-founder of Subterranean Sound &amp; Vision, and co-owner of both Street Trash and Pizza Records. He also contributes film writing and reviews to MoreHorror.com and Critical Screening. His work is rooted in independent film, regional filmmaking, and creating art and businesses outside the traditional industry system.

Devin Smock

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The Record Store That Accidentally Became My Film School

Nick Dawson talks with filmmakers, musicians and comedians whose work he loves, avoiding the mundane, predictable questions they&#8217;ve heard numerous times and instead asking substantive, thoughtful questions that get to the heart of who they are.

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Cara Jade Myers is currently starring in the Native period drama How We Stand, which she also produced. She had her breakthrough role acting opposite Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone and Robert DeNiro in Martin Scorsese&#8217;s Oscar-nominated Killers of the Flower Moon in 2023. A member of the Wichita and Kiowa tribes, she also starred in the 2025 action thriller Ice Fall, opposite Joel Kinnaman. Myers is also a writer, documentarian, and passionate about showing the next generation of Native kids that they too can get a foot into film and television; she teaches workshops on reservations and also created CRASH Cares to create care packages for the unhoused. She now lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their two pups. Follow her on Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/cara.jade.myers/?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>. (Photo by Darklisted Photography.)

Cara Jade Myers

Stories of Beauty and Strength

Garth Jennings is a film director, writer and artist whose latest film, <a href="https://mubi.com/en/us/films/pulp-what-do-you-do-for-an-encore" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pulp: What Do You Do for an Encore?</a>, is now streaming on MUBI. His work includes videos for Blur, Radiohead, Beck, R.E.M., Fatboy Slim and Vampire Weekend. He directed the feature film The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and wrote and directed the semi-autobiographical film Son of Rambow. Garth went on to write and direct the animated films Sing and Sing 2 with Illumination Entertainment, and is the author of four children’s books: The Wildest Cowboy, The Deadly Seven, The Good, the Bad, and the Deadly Seven, and The Curse of the Deadly Seven. Garth is currently writing and directing his next movie. (Photo by Ezra Petronio.)

Garth Jennings

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Cape Fear with Eva Anderson

Eric Slick is a singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist based in Nashville, Tennessee. He has performed and recorded with Dr. Dog, Taylor Swift, The War on Drugs, Waxahatchee, Kevin Morby, Ruston Kelly, Adrian Belew, Ween, and many others. Eric has released several studio albums, including 2024’s New Age Rage. In addition to his work as a recording artist, he composes music for film and advertising. He scored The Good Mother, starring Hilary Swank, which received an international theatrical release. He is also currently working on a documentary about legendary drummer Bernard Purdie.

Eric Slick

Music

Inside the Bounce House, Part 1

Lip Critic is an electropunk band based in Brooklyn. Their latest record, Theft World, is out now on Partisan.

Lip Critic

Adult DVD is a dance-punk band from Leeds. Their self-titled debut is out now on Fat Possum.

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Producer/director&nbsp;Ondi Timoner has the rare distinction of winning the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival twice. Her 2004 doc, <a href="http://www.interloperfilms.com/portfolio/dig/">Dig!</a>, explores the star-crossed rivalry of the Dandy Warhols and the Brian Jonestown Massacre, while her 2009 top prize-winner, <a href="http://www.interloperfilms.com/portfolio/we-live-in-public/">We Live in Public</a>, examines privacy in the virtual age through Internet visionary Josh Harris&#8217; social experiments. Her company <a href="http://atotaldisruption.com">A Total Disruption</a>&nbsp;releases weekly short docs about thought leaders and doers who are transforming our lives through technology.

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Hiam Abbass can currently be seen in the new war drama <a href="https://kinolorber.com/film/atonement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Atonement</a>, also starring Boyd Holbrook and Kenneth Branagh, which is now in theaters. She recently starred opposite Jeremy Irons in Palestine 36, and appeared as a series regular on HBO’s Succession and recurring on Hulu’s Ramy and The Old Man for FX. Her other television credits include The Promise, The State and The OA. Her extensive feature film credits include Munich (2005), The Lemon Tree (2008), The Visitor (2008), Amreeka (2009), Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014) and Blade Runner 2049 (2017), amongst many others. She also worked as a creative consultant and acting coach on Alejandro G. Iñárritu Babel and Steven Spielberg’s Munich. She made her directorial feature film debut with The Inheritance in 2012, and has since written and directed an additional three short films: Le Pain, Le Danse Eternelle and Le Donne Della Vucciria.